Destruction of Trees in Dublin

dublin | environment | news report Wednesday November 21, 2007 20:55 by K. Ryan

Phoenix Park Trees Destruction

This week saw the beginning of a plan to remove the trees in front of St. Marys Hospital Phoenix Park.

While visiting my elderly mother there on Wednesday, she asked me what was all the noise about with the chainsaws. I enquired and was informed that the trees are being removed so that the hospital can be seen from the park gate. This has been approved by the Office of Public Works, who are responsible for the park.
With so much development in Dublin destroying green areas, I would have hoped that the Phoenix Park was a refuge from such development. It is also shocking that this plan ignores the fact that the elderly patients, confined to spend their final days in that hospital might prefer to look out the window at trees and nature, instead of cars and roads.